Re: INSTALLATION-PROBLEM

["John J. Donohue" <jdonohue mcallen lib tx us>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Arnold P. Miller wrote:

> 	I have a problem during the installation period using redhat 6.0 in the 
> partition checking  theres a message RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> and then after that it will hang  forever...I cant delete the compressed image
> found at block 0 even  i try to fdisk and reformat my hardisk using DOS or even
> fdisk/MBR.
> 
> 	Error during Partition check:
> 		RAMDISK:	Compressed image found at block 0
> 
> 	Can anyone figure out what is the cause of this kind of error?  and how
> to delete the compressed image at block 0? Thank you.
> 
That isn't an error message. That's a progress report. On boot, the kernel
is loaded into memory and a temporary virtual file system is built >in
memory<. You can make anything in RAM go away by turning off the machine, of
course. ;-)
What system messages do you see before the above? Do you see any other
messages after the above?
Describe your computer hardware (CPU, RAM, bus, drives, etc) and maybe one
of us here can give a more productive answer.